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The deep dive

The deep dive

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 Welcome to The Deep Dive, the podcast that ventures far beneath the surface of everyday knowledge. Each episode is a journey into the fascinating corners of human curiosity—where history’s footnotes, scientific outliers, and digital subcultures take center stage. Whether we're unearthing the lost empires of Southeast Asia, unpacking the eerie psychology of mass hysteria, or tracing the rise and fall of forgotten internet visions like the Semantic Web, The Deep Dive is your portal to the strange, the significant, and the nearly forgotten. If you’ve ever gone down a Wikipedia rabbit hole at 2AMAgnostic Airhorn Mundial
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  • Episode 1 - Cleopatra, Oxford University, Wooly Mammoth, Library of Alexandria and the Longest war

    Episode 1 - Cleopatra, Oxford University, Wooly Mammoth, Library of Alexandria and the Longest war
    May 28 2025

    The sources describe fascinating historical facts, including that Cleopatra lived closer in time to the invention of the iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid, highlighting her place at the end of ancient Egyptian civilization, and that Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, showing how different civilizations developed simultaneously. They also note that woolly mammoths were still alive on an isolated island while the Great Pyramid was being constructed, challenging our view of prehistoric and ancient times, that the destruction of the Library of Alexandria was a slow decline over centuries rather than a single catastrophic event, and finally, that the longest continuous war, the "Three Hundred and Thirty-Five Years' War," lasted for 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly but was entirely peaceful due to a historical oversight
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